6-Year-Old Wisdom

Overheard while the kids were eating cereal for breakfast.

Jeremiah, "Mommy we need to get a cow because of how much milk we go through."

Matthew, "Why?"

Jeremiah, "Do you know what a cow pees out?"

Matthew, "What?"

Jeremiah, "Milk!"

I am now trying to decide if I need to make up a lesson covering this or if we should take a field trip to a farm.

UPDATE!!

Jeremiah does know where the milk on a cow comes from. He was just trying to pull one over on his brother. I think he got me too! :)

4-year-oldism

Matthew last night at dinner, "Mom, this is the BEST dinner I never had!!"

CT Visits!

I think I speak for every Homeschooling mom when I say ARRGH!!! Not only do you feel the need to clean your house from top to bottom but your children need to be fully caught up with school! This does not sound too hard but CT (Certified Teacher) visits always seems to come after the family has been sick or right before or after a family vacation or some other huge event. They never come when you are fully caught up on housework and school work. I type this as I frantically try to finish up my daily lesson plans and fill any gaps in my monthly lesson plan(I lesson plan during summer so I have to make any adjustments that happen along the way). At the same time, I cannot imagine Homeschooling my children on my own anymore. I LOVE our teacher and our school. She is so great about everything. I love how family friendly our school is too! They highly encourage us to bring all of our kids to their events not just the school age children and the some teachers will bring their families too! All that to say even though I might be complaining right now I defiantly prefer having my kids enrolled in a charter school as opposed to doing it on my own! Now it is back to panicking!!

Food

Matthew walks into the room, "Why did nobody make me food?" His hands are on hips and his foot is tapping.

I briefly considered punishing him for his attitude then sent him to go ask his dad so I could burst out laughing.

The Sickies :(

Thankfully the sickies do not hit our house often and even more thankfully I am not the one usually sick. I do have allergies but that does not count as being sick just makes me tired and worn out. This time though I was the one sick so much so that I made Brad turn around from driving to baseball and take me home. Trust me I tried to grin and bear it. Through this I have learned even more how much my children are growing up. Erik has been such a help through it all well, until he started feeling sick. I think there should be some kind rule that if parents get sick then the older kids are not allowed to be sick too. It just leaves no one to keep the house from falling apart. Jeremiah helped out quite a bit as well but remember he is 6. He has grown up so much in so many ways during the last year. It still catches me by surprise. Thankfully we are on the mend.

Drinks

In our house, we do not do a lot of juice or what I refer to as sugar water (IE Kool-Aid or Tang etc.). I usually try to have water and diluted down caffeine free tea in the refrigerator especially in the summer. I do this for a variety of reasons. It is healthier in so many ways. My kids rehydrate themselves without consuming sugar, or caffeine. As far as the argument that a 6 oz serving of juice equals a fruit, I prefer my children to eat their fruit, again, because it is far healthier and it is a nice dessert. Health concerns aside, I found another reason to avoid sugar drinks as I was cleaning today, STICKY FLOORS!! It seems the sugar in the drinks dries like a glue trap so every speck of dirt in our place is attracted to it and as many of you know, we have truck fulls of dirt here. Now, I have dark spots all over a freshly mopped floor (ok, not so fresh now, since I try hard to only mop nightly with spot mopping done during the day). I am pretty sure we will not be serving any more sugar drinks except on special occasions this summer since I am do not think I can keep up with the mess!

Happy Birthday Seth!

A little late but thats what happens when your internet does not work. My baby is two! He is losing the baby look but he will always be my baby! Happy Birthday and I love you, Seth!